Laguna Beach fire fighters rescued three people who were trapped in a cove Wednesday as the sky darkened and the tide was rising.<\/p>\n
Two males and a female in their 20s walked into a cove known as Littleman\u2019s Cove around 6 p.m., said Jeff LaTendresse, deputy chief of the Laguna Beach Fire Department.<\/p>\n
A high surf came in, and the trio discovered they could not get out of the cove the same way they came in.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were scared,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was some pretty good surf last night. The tide kept coming and coming.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fire department was contacted around 9 p.m. and began a rope rescue operation, LaTendresse said. The three were loaded into stokes baskets and pulled 100 feet up a cliff using ladder trucks, he said. <\/p>\n
The tide reached 5 feet during the rescue operation, which took three hours, he said.<\/p>\n
Two of the people were transported to a local hospital and treated for exposure. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe get our fair share of rescuing people several times a year,\u201d LaTendresse said.<\/p>\n
— My-Thuan Tran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Laguna Beach fire fighters rescued three people who were trapped in a cove Wednesday as the sky darkened and the tide was rising. Two males and a female in their 20s walked into a cove known as Littleman\u2019s Cove around 6 p.m., said Jeff LaTendresse, deputy chief of the Laguna Beach Fire Department. A high […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}